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> The Egyptian "gods" were and still are real
> entities. They were real in the astral, and real when they took
> human births.

Actually I agree with you!

But I probably see this from a different perspective. If archaeologists discover a modern physics text in 10,000 years and don't think or speak like we do one can easily imagine a child asking a parent if people in 21st century really believed that there were an infinite number of pyramids built with an infinite number of ramps then obviously the answer is 'yes". Perhaps by then they'll actually know this is the reality (yeah, right) and they can visit any of these pyramids at any time (even while they're being built). If they know that this is just nonsense then it doesn't change our belief. Each of these worlds is as real to us as our imaginations allow. Either they are real only to us or they are real in nature.

The same thing applies here but there's an added perspective. Obviously we agree that the ancient gods were real to the people and we apparently agree that they existed in reality as well. The gods were combinations of people and animals just like the ancient perspective of the world. I believe they actually existed in this internal and external managerie. They not only lived in a zoo around them but it was a zoo inside their minds as well. They manipulated people and animals to even think.

The gods were defined in such terms as to be real and an accurate reflection of reality. In every way they were more real than an infinite number of ramps. They were even palpable and discernable. They were studied.

Tom Robbins suggests that the ancient gods are fading away because people no longer believe in them. I have to suspect you're in more agreement with him than I am because I believe the ancient gods can never die. We might look out at the world from a spot from whence they can't be seen but they are still "watching over us", as it were.

Whether they had an existence beyond reality and beyond their definitions (or even if I'm right) are questions that are pretty difficult to ponder while no science and no study of reality is going on in Egypt.

At least on the surface we must be in close agreement. If I'm right though that the language changed then the nature of the gods also changed so it's not outside the realm of possibility that we are equally correct and equally accurate as to the reality.